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ffIDEI TONE* ADYEBTIsEMEHTI
Meetings—Magnolia Encampment No. 1,
t. O. Q. K.; saYannuh Female Orphan
Asylum.
Special Notice—Two Mules for Sale by K-
Power.
A MCSI.YIKNTS —At Savannah Theatre, Bos
ton Star Concert Company; Japanese Wed
ding and Mikado Supper at Independent
Presbyterian Sunday School; Exhibition
Drill by the Savannah Cadets.
Acction Salks—Ten Building Lots, by C.
11. Dursett; Sundries, by I. D. Laßoche’s
Sons.
Wants—One or Two Gentle Horses to Take
(are of; Thirty-live Bricklayers; Six Car
penters: Boarders; A Butler.
Eos Rent—Kino House.
KoR sale—Oue Chiekering and One Fisher
Piano, Second-hand.
Notice—Riverside Park Grounds Free to
Picnics.
The Palace Coni ictionkry -Easter Nov
elties.
Tennessee Bitter—A. H. Champion.
Floral Designs—At Parsons’.
lIAtK-ct'TTlNfi —At the Broughton Street
flair Store.
It is reported that the mouth of the Mis
sissippi is tilling up and that after all
Capt. Eads’ jetties may not prove a per
manent suce-ss.
It is stated that good mandolins cost
from sllO to s.‘>oo. As they are coming
Into demand, however, no doubt factories
will soon be established that can supply
them at all prices from 25 cents up.
There are a good many people in Balti
more who do not agree with the minister
who said that “cremation is a burning
shame.’’ They have organized a com
pany and propose to erect a crematory at
once.
John Swinton lectured on labor in New
Haven the other night. He severely cen
sured Jay Gould and favored shorter hours
and boycotting; hut individually he did
not seem to be enthusiastically in favor
oi labor.
-A Chicago paper affects to fear that the
Senate will lefuse to confirm the Presi
dent’s alleged choice for “First Ladv in
the I and.” It seems to have forgotten
bow quickly the Edmunds’ resolution be
came obsolete.
Eli Perkins has been lecturing in New
York t" thin houses on the philosophy of
Wit and humor. He says wits are always
great liars, wuile humorists always tell
the truth. Eli will go down to a posterity
as one of our greatest wits.
The report comes from Cape Breton is.
fand that some Yankee fishermen have
been robbing and destroying the nets and
lobster traps of the natives. It is <o be
feared that ii uermen’s stories will yet
Involve this country in war.
It is said that the Czar and Sultan will
have a meeting on a ship in the Black
sea. It is not probable that they will
take their wives along and have oscu
tatory salutes all around, as was the case
with the Emperors at the recent con
ferences.
Moody and Sankey are to conduct
another series of meetings in Chicago. It
teems that the wicked people of that city
are not going to he allowed to have any
rest either in this world or the world to
tome, unless they repent and turu from
tbeir evil ways.
Before the popular discussion about the
hurte in nature and society in settled the
papers have again begun to discuss the
nude in art. It seems that the most
rsthetic writers are admirers of undraped
flßures, whether they are in marble, in
hhe ballet or in the drawing room.
One of the reasons why Washington
lociety, so it is alleged, is willing to be
lieve that the gossip about the President's
approaching marriage has some founda
tion is, that the name of Miss Folsom was
line of five names put with wedding cake
tinder Mr. Cleveland’s pillow the first
tight he slep. in Washington, March 3,
1886.
It is the impression in several sections
#f the country that the campaign for ’Bß
has alrealy been begun bv Blaine, and
iliai he will he pretty sure to be the
Republican nominee. In that event (he
tbmiocrais can economize by using again
hll the old campaign material. It will
9 obablv be more effeotive then tnan it
Has in ’B4.
fhe excitement in Louisville over the
Appointment of Mrs. Thompson as post
mistress continues, and Inmlllei, busi
ness firms, society and churches are said
|o be all torn up on the subject. Nothing,
irohablv, would res Lore quiet so quickly
is a temporary suspension of the caro
lling law so everybody could settle down
to an absorbing game of p ker.
The town of Ipswich, Mich., as going
through an era of reform. A selectman
f Alderman ) has threatened the leading
Iruggist that if he doesn't stop selling
loda water on Suuday he will be arrested,
and the druggist has notified the select.
Dan that if he doesn’t stop selling eider
Without a license and quit peddling milk
in Sunday be will find out what the
law is.
Meetings of taxpayers were recently
told in several counties of Virginia at
which resolutions were adopted in favor
if the paying ol State taxes in money, and
ixprsasing a determination not to patron-
Ue persons who persist 111 paying taxes
In the coupons of the outlawed Stale
bonds. It is believed that the bond boy,
lo’t will be pretty ettoctivt in the Old
HT. namriii,,, i
The Ohio Bribery Investigation.
Partisan injustice has seldom been more
conspicuously displayed than it was in
the majority report of the committee ap
pointed by the Otilo Legislature to inves
tigate tno charges of bribery peferred
against four members oi that body in con
nection with the election of Hon. Henry
B. Pavne to t tie United States Senate. The
I bribery charges were originally made by
a man named Donavin, amt were after
wards put into a shape that seemed to
make an investigation necessary.
Stripped of all verbiage the charges were
that Mr. Payne had purchased his elec
tion.
The committee worked three months
and took S.iKK) pages of testimony. There
were two reports. The minority report
was made hv the Democrats, and stated
that there was no evidence to support the
charges. There were a great many ru
mors l>ut no facts. The majority report
made by the Republicans, stated that the
charges against the four members re
ferred to in the resolution authorizing the
investigation were not sustained. This,
of course, was an admission that nothing
had been discovered that inculpated Mr.
j Paine. Notwithstanding the failure to
j find that, Mr. Payne had done anything
! that an honest man would blush to do the
I Republican members of the committee
recoinmt nded that the United Stales
Senate should begin an investigation into
Mr. Payne’s right to a seat in that body,
simply because there had been rumors
that he succeeded in getting elected by
the improper use ol monev.
Can partisan maltoe and unfairness go
further than this? If the Republicans ol
the Ohio Legislature were not able to prove
that Mr. Payne was corruptly elected
how do thev expect it to be done by an in
vestigation instituted by the Senate?
Mr. Payne has been very frank about
this alleged bribery business ever since
the charges were first made. He offered
to appear belore the committee at the
Ohio captol and testify, and he also
offered to submit to it whatever books
and papers might be called for. He was
not called as a witness and no demand
was made lor papers.
Fair-minded men, alter they had thor
oughly inquired into all the rumors and
found them to be without foundation,
would have said frankly, and without
reservations of any Rind, that so far as
they were able to find out, Mr. Payne's
election was without any taint of corrup
tion or wrong-doing. But fair dealing of
that sort is too much to expect lrom Ohio
Republicans.
The City’s Nliade Trees.
The number of citizens who approve
the action of the city authorities in cut
ting down the trees on Broughton street
is apparently very small, while those who
condemn it is without doubt very large.
Indeed the destruction of the Broughton
street trees has been the occasion of
many expressions of indignation.
The people of Savannah teel a just
pride in the city’s trees, and the destruc
tion ol a tree on any street, whether by
storm, decay or the ax, is noted with re
gret.
If the destruction of the Broughton
street trees had been a necessity there
would have been no murmurings, but it
doesn’t appear that it was a necessity.
They did not interfere with the improve
ment ot the street, and their removal un
covers some rather unsightly buildings.
The only possible benefit that is likely to
result lrom their disappearance is tnat
the owners of the unsightly buildings,
seeing how inferior they are, will replace
them with attractive ones.
The removal of trees, however, has not
been wholly confined to Broughton street.
It is stated that trees are cut down ou
other streets even when there does not
appear to he any satisfactory reason for
doing so.
There ought to be some system that
would be acceptable to the public adopted
with respect to the planting and removal
oi trees. Those who now have the juris
diction of them tnav not entertain views
with regard to them that are approved by
the great majority of the people, and, as
the people are most interested in the
matter, some means ought to be taken to
get an expression of their wishes.
Wonders of the Tclcphoue.
It begins to loon as if the telephone
would largely take the place of the tele
graph. A telephone recently invented
by Mr. William C. Turnbull, of Balti
more, has shown a wondrous capacity for
long distance speaking. A few days ago
a test was made between Washington
and New York, which was in
every respect satisfactory, and on
Sunday a test was made between
New Y'ork and Cleveland, a distance ol
630 miles, which was entirely successful.
A person talking in the Cleveland office
could Vie heard about as distinctly in the
New York office as if he were only in the
next room or on an adjacent block.
improvements of the telephone are be
ing made all the time, and It Is not un
reasonable to expect that at an early day
New Y'ork will ho able to talk with San
Francisco, and perhaps with London. In
deed, it may not be too much to say that
the wonders of the telephone are not yet
half revealed.
The largest taxpaying incorporation in
New York city is the Consolidated Gua
Company, which pays into the treasury
$283,578 33 this year. The heaviest in
uividual taxpayer is the estate of Moses
Tailor, which sent in a cheok the other
day for $72,000 on $.3,000,000 worth of per
sonalty. W. W. Astor comes next with
a paltry assessment of $32,420. William
11. Vanderbilt’s estate pays $24 000. Most
of the rich men of Gotham keep their
money invested in non-taxable securities,
or their wealth is represented by prop
ertv out of town, .lay Gould Individually
is not an owner ol property in New York,
although he controls a tew million dol
lars’ worth of investments or vurious
kinds.
In arguing the other day in the case of
the Bankers’ and Merchants' Telegraph
Company against the Western t’uion lor
$2,000,000 d.images for cutting down the
wires of the first Vuunod company, ex
benator Coukling is reported to have ex
claimed in the Supreme Court of New
York, “If not by legislative acts, or an
iboriiy of the court, then by the ax and
the iron heel of power and wealth com
petition must be trainnlid out.” The
popular imnression is that Gould “Is
about us lawless as are the riotous West
ern Knights when occasion warrants, but
he is generally attiart enougo to steal the
. brerv of,[Up. iw to etirve his purposes.”
SAVANWAH MUKINIIVC* JYEWS: WEDNESDAY. APKIL 21, 1836.
Alleged Increase in the Appropria
tion Bills.
It is stated that the appropriations for
this session will amount to $50,000,000
more than the appropriations for the last
session of Congress, and it is claimed
that this great increase is due to the
change in the rules which took the appro
priatinn bills away from a single commit
toe and scattered them among nail a dozen
committees. It would be interesting to
know whether the change in the rules
has, in fact, resulted in such an enor
mous increase in the appropriations.
We opposed the change in the rules on
the ground of economy, and poiuted out
that a distribution of the bills would in all
probability he productive of increased ap
propriations. The reasons we gave for
this were that each committee would aim
to get all it could for the objects which
carne within its jurisdiction, and that
eaoh being without information as to what
every other was doing, there would not be
in any committee the information neces
sary to legislate with a view to economy.
It tnay be, however, that the statement
relative to the amount ot the increase is
misleading, and that when all the facts
are known it will appear that the increase
is not the result ot extravagance, but of
the increased necessities of the govern
ment. For instance, the passage ol pen
sion bills will require increased pension
appropriations, and the amount needed
for the navy is yearly growing larger on
account of the policy which has been
adopted of building anew navy.
The Democrats could hardly afford to
go before the country at the fall elections
with a record of an increase in one year
of $30,000,000 tn the appropriations unless
they were able to show, beyond all ques
tion,that legislation approved by Congress
and the country made such an increase
necessary.
The Democratic majority in the House
is about 44. and a change of 25 votes won Id
give the House to the Republicans, it is
necessary, therefore, for the Democrats
to be extremely careful relative not only
to the appropriations but to all other leg
islative matters. The people will approve
whatever increase in the appropriations
that may be made, provided it can be
shown that the increase was necessary.
New York Republicans Worsted.
The New York Republicans are in a bad
fix. They have been “hoisted by tneir
own petard,” knocked out, defeated and
almost demoralized. Since the local elec
tion in Albany last week and the veto of
the new capitol appropriation bill, the
ambulance corps of tbe Republican party
in the Empire State has been busy gath
ering up tbe wounded politicians, and the
hospital surgeons are yet employed with
political lint and bandages.
The Republican manipulators were sat
isfied that the Governor would see through
the job contained in the hill and that he
.would not approve it, and hence they held
it back and passed it just before the Al
bany election, believing that a veto at that
tune would cause the hundreds of work
men who would be thrown out to vote sol
idly against the Democrats and thereby
enable them to gain an easy victory. This
scheme was frustrated by Lieut. Gov.
Jones, he of Binghamton, who retused
to abet it and declined to sign the billon
the day it was sent him. This enabled the
Governor to hold back his veto message
until after the election, and although it
was conceded that he would veto the bill,
with all the Republicans could do or say
the Democrats elected their city ticket by
a greatly increased majority.
Then, as if to taunt the Republican
managers after their defeat, which was
like a bombshell in the party throughout
the State, came the veto message of the
Governor, with its crushing statements
ol undisputed facts and its overpowering
logic. He reviewed the history of the
bill, how it originated with the Albany
politicians, and was engineered as a poli
tical measure, and then he told how it
would please him to approve an honest,
straightforward bill. About all that they
could say against the message was that
it read like a “stump speech,’’but they
could not deny its crushing effect.
Now it is more tbau probable that the
Republican legislators will be too stilt to
come to the Governors terms, and that
woik on the new capitol will stop for two
or three years. The Republicans will
have to bear the responsibility for this
delay.
A New Industry at Chattanooga.
The beginning of the manufacture ol
Bessemer steel rails at Chattanooga on
Monday is an event of interest to tho
entire South. Steel rail mills will doubt
less soon be established at other points
in the southern iron region, and it would
not be surprising if in the very near future
the South should make the greater pa-t of
the steel rails demanded by the market of
this country.
The reason why this may be the
case is that iron and steel
can be produced cheaper in tho South
than in the North. Even now iron is be
ing shipned from Alabama to Pennsyl
vania. The steamships from this city
carry large quantities of it to Philadel
phia and New Y'ork. In Alabama there
are iron ores enough of the very best kinds
to supply the world for generations. The
same Is true with respect to Tennessee.
The iron and coal are close together, and
can bo mined at a comparatively small
cost.
All that Is required in the South now is
capital to nausea transfer of tho groat
iron and steel Interests of the country
from Pennsylvania to Tennessee and Ala
bama. The transfer mav be slow, but it
will bo made. The production of iron In
the South is steadily increasing. The day
is notillstant when Birmingham and Chat
tannnga will rival Pittsburg.
It is announced that Abraham Isaac
Jacob, a negro of Philadelphia, has the
honor to be the first of bis color to be ap
pointed to the lire department of that city.
He has been made a boseman on engine
20, and Is raid to be capable. Tne recog
nition of the negro in any capacity but
that of voter has been slow in Philadel
phia, but when capability is joined to the
possession of three great names the man
and brother mutt come to the front.
It is announced that tho army rolls of
the late war stored in the department at
Washington can hardly he handled on
account of tbeir age and dilapidated con
dition. This, probably, is another good
reason why the pension lists ehou Id not
be increased just now auv more than nec
essary. Pension lists, however, appear
to ha at long lived as our pensioners and
pensioners’ widows.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Chance of the Tariff Bill.
From the New York Time* {Mug.)
It will be remarkable if the high protection
tats, with tbeir agent Randall in ihe Demo
cratic camp, cannot defeat the bill. It will
hr a Lad thing for the Democrats if thev can
not pass it.
Didn’t Monopolize Rascality.
From tbe Baton Herald ifniUi'
Ex-Gov. Moses was not a carpet-bagger,
liu a member of oue of the "first families’’ of
Bou>h < aroltna, and a son ot a former Chief
Justice of the Stale. The carpet-baggers,
though a bad lot in general, did not monopo
lize the rascality of the reconstruction era.
Wants to See the Rumpus.
From the Sew York Sun ( Ind.)
Do the Democrats, after a quarter of a cen
turv's ex<-‘iihiou from power, hope to resusci
tate Deir prt, and rebuild it on solid and
enduring foundations by a pusillanimous
policy, and by de lining to grapple with the
Republicans anywhere, and on all occasions?
Progress tn Joarmsllsin.
From the Philadelphia Time* ( Ind .) ,
Senator Rtddlcherger thinks that the rea
son the secrets of the executive sessions get
out is because the newspaper men are shrewd
er than the Senators. Standing alone this
theory may not seem very important, but
taken in connection with the fact that the
se rets do get out it appears to score a point.
At any rate, the newspaper men of to-day
have improved on (he newspaper men of half
a oeuturv ago and the same thing cannot be
said for Senators.
BRIGHT bits.
An English watchmaker is named
McCall. His timekeepers are no doubt
“Watch you McCall It.” —Pittsburg Chroni
cle- Telegraph.
Senior asks Professor avery profound ques
tion. Professor—Mr. W., a fool can ask a
question that ten wise men could not an
swer.
Senior—Then I suppose that’s why so many
of us flunk .—College exchange.
Thk Superior Court of Kentucky savs that
a man cannot recover for time lost in attend
ing the funeral of his mother-in-law. He
would be a mean wretch who should want to.
The avera c min is always too ready to see
his mother- n-law buried without asking pay
for it. —Philadelphia Pres*.
“\Vh 'nl tell ye?" sniffed I ‘nolo Abel Rim
ley, one of the pizenist Republicans the Cor
ners ever knew. “Told ve Cleveland an’ his
crowd wasn’t lit to run the country, didn’t I?
I've been readth’ the papers pret y sharp the
P is' year, an’ ah’s I’ve seen is fourth-class
Postmaster- appointed. Didn't used to be so
with us. We h-d fust-class men or nothin’.
I tell ye the Democrats ain’t fit.” And the
old man shook Ins head tugaly. Portland Ar
(JUH .
“I saw Col. Bill Mcßride, t'day,” said one
Dakota sett'er to another. “I guess he’s go'n
tube a can'date lor the leg’siater next fall
ag’tn.”
“Did he shake hands with you?”
"Ob, he always does that—competition is so
brisk now’davs that they hav’t’ know a fel
ler the year round.”
“Homl’ju tell, lhen v ”
“Helemue beat ’bout ten dollars tradin’
hosses. iiill ain’t a man as’ud hurt his rep
’tation that wav ess he’d some object
ahead.”— EsteUineßell.
I suppose Eastern capital has done a great
deal for this country,” sata a traveler to a
Dakota settler.
• Olt, I 'sped it has—least that’s what they
all say.”
“Haven’t you been benefited by it?”
“Well, no, can t, say s I.hare.’’
“What has heen the trouble?”
“Why, you see, I borrowed SSO of yer East
ern cap’tal when I first came out here, and
blamed ef it hasn’t kept me humping ’bout's
hard as I can hump to raise the SBO each
month to pay the interest on it. It haskm-ler
held me back, stranger "—FieVine {Dakota)
Hell.
Once upon a time, many, many years ago,
there were two little boys who lived in West
ern M iwacbiisetts, away up among the Berk
shire hills. One morning oue of these li tit
boys came to t he house of the other with a fine
gamecock under his arm. and he said: “Bid.
I want to swap this rooster for yours." Bill
asked; “Is ha a good rooster, Cyrus?” And
Cyrus replied that he was the best fighting
cock in the country. Then Bill asked; "Ii he
is the best rooster in the country wbv do you
want to swap him for mine?” And Cyrus
made answer: "Oh, this roo-ter is father’s,
ted I want to swap him so that I can have
one of my own.”— Bouton Adtertiur.
in grammar there’s great eontrariety:
It is very confused, and, if not rightly used.
Will lead you to much impropriety.
For instance, tho’ fan in the plural is fans.
The plural of tnau is men and not mans.
And remember tho’ fox in the plural is foxes.
The plural of ox is oxen, not oxes.
And remember tho’ noose in the plural is
nooßes,
The plural of goose is geese and not gooses.
And consider tho’ house in the plural is houses,
The plural of mouse is mice ami not mouses.
And be sure tho’ the plural ot oss may he asses,
You’ll lie-‘set down an ass,” if you say “those
molasses.”
And tho’ talking of breeze yon may speak of
the breezes,
In speaking of trees, never mention the treescs.
And tho’ nose in the plural is properly noses.
In speaking of toes do not call them your
toeses. *
PERSONAL.-
Henry George gives Sunday morning lec
tures in New York on property.
Rev Georue Washington is chaplain of
the British Legation at Constantinople.
Oliver Ames gives Sunday evening “musi
ea| receptions’’ that arc much talked of in
Boston.
Mr. Irving has Imen entertaining the Ox
ford an t Cambridge crews en masse at his
theatre ami at his table.
A Paris paper reports that the Prince of
Wales’ late vtsii to that city was for the pur
pose of borrowing the sura of 4250,000.
The education of Prince Albert Victor of
W iles is to bo completed on the plan drawn
many years ago by the Prince Consort for tne
Prince of Wales.
Matthew Arnold will come to Ameriea
next month for a summer of rest, though lie
may lector ' once each iu New York, Boston,
and Philadelphia.
Bismarck, having been advised by his doc
tor- to try a visit to Southern dimes, the Em
peror ol Austria has offered him the Use of the
Palace of Miramar.
Capt. Boycott, who gave gave the world a
word, is lo .-el) his Irish property this week
ami io move from Longli Mask. County Mavo.
to Klixton Hall, Eng.
Senator Kknna, of West Virginia, is an
amateur photographer, and amuses himself
in the summer In tr .raping over the moun
tains of his state taking views.
It ts stated by a Rhode Island paper that
since ex-tiov. Sprague’s last marriage there
has been a marked Improvement in his per
sonal eonductand financial standing.
Ex-Gov. Bell, of New Hampshire, is pre
paring a history of Exeter. V. 11., his native
home, lobe publ shed at the time of Ihe.juar
ter milleniai celebration of ihe town in Inh*
"W hkn Mrs. Goorgc Itaneroit tiled, savs a
Washington letter wriier, “Mrs. Jot n Davis,
secretary Frelinghuysen's youngest daughter,
toi.i me it was ihe fifteen Hi death of per-ons
with whom she was Intimately acquainted
since her father left her on March 11 of last
year."
.log C. G. Kbnnkdv, the veteran Washing
tonian, has been quite ill for some time, I.ut
is how able to sii up and read his Horace and
Virgil. Ho reads then In the original, and
it was to linn that Senator Thurman gene
rally went when In doubt about a Latin quo
tation.
Granville C. Moony, who poses at the capi
tal .s senator-elect from the embryo Slate of
Dakolu, Is a lighting man who recognizes the
e .1, . In Indiana he challenged Gen. HelTren,
who selected !owie knives, but afterward
chose rifles. Tho non-arrival of a surgeon
brought on an explanation and Hoff*
ren w Ithdrew the charges which had brought
on the challenge. There was an evl
dent determination on Moody’s part to light,
and it was with difficulty that the quarrel
wasuniicat.lv settled.
Henry Warp Beechek says: “Joseph
Cook can take a boos and while he Is on a
train he can stuff til rase f full of It and givo
a lecture on the subject Whatever opinion
he gets from it on the start he sticks to. how
ever erroneous they rue v be proved. When
lie attacked Tyndall, t.uxlev and Darwin a
the grpit • hrlstian scientist ho probably
knew no more ~f science than a fresh college
graduate. He Is a Very conceited man and
very ambitious. Like all couce ted men.
when they fed iiopnlartty and their hold on
toe |iub.le slipping away, he line become em
bittered and damns the public, instead of
looking to himself to Had the cause."
STORY OF A SLEEPING CAR.
The Gray-Halreil Capitalist Who Want
ed “Just One Kiss” for a Night Cap.
Train Talk in Chicago Herald.
The story begins, and is likely to cut., with
a certain capitalist and railroad operator,who
was prominent in a syndicate which built a
paralleler 500 miles long ami made tnoneyby
selling it. This gentleman, who is well known
in Chicago, not many weeks ago occupied r.
stateroom of a Wagner sleeping car going
east on the 3:30 express on the Michigan Cen
tral. During the evening a lady , whose seat
was located near Hie middle of the car, asked
tbe porter to prepare her berth for I tie night,
and while this was being done she occupied a
seat in section 12, nearly opposite the state
room. Here she Was in plain view of the great
railroad builder, and, though he is old and the
father of a family, he knows a pretty face
when he secs it. This young woman hart
a pretty face, anil in the course of a
half hour tho occupant of the stateroom
was seen sitting in the seat beside the young
lady, engaged in an animated, and, on ins
part, somewhat cavalierish conversation.
Thus an hour or so wore away, and then the
railroad man retired to the smoking saloon to
enjoy a cigar or two. During his absence the
young lady returned to her own berth and
retired for tlie night. Wh le the train wag
crossing the Detroit river a little before mid
night the gentleman retired to Ills s’ ateroem
and soon the berths were all mu filed, the
lights turned down, and the ear rumbling on
with its sleeping passengers. But ail were
not asleep, for half an Hour later the occupant
of the stateroom appeared at tlie door of his
apartment, cautiously opened it, and peered
out. The condu"tor was in another sleeping
car and the porter was dozing over his boots
at the other end of the coach. The railroad
man stepped into the aisle, looked around,
parted the curtains of berth 12, stuck liis gray
head and his rather fleshy arms therein, and
whispered:
“Just one kiss, dear, before I go to seep,”
Then there arose a scream vvliicb nearly
lifted i he roof from the car, and which brought
the porter, t‘>e conductor, and several passen
gers flying to the scene. Tbe occupant of
berth 12—an elderly ladv who had got aboard
the train and retired at Detroit—was found in
a state of hysterics, weeping and streaming
alternately. In vain the railroad man made
profuse apologies; vain were his pleadings
that he had made a mistake, and that he
meant no harm; that he was verv, very
sorry. He was threatened with arrest, with
chastisement, and with ejection from the car;
but no such punishment was infl cted upon
him, ana he finally retired to the smoking sa
loon to seek solace in another cigar. Despite
their sympathy with the elderly lady yvhose
nerves nan been so rudely shocked, the pas
sengers could not avoid laughing at the ludi
crous blunder made by their fellow-traveler
of the stateroom. Among the most amused of
them all was tbe roguish young woman who
occupied a berth near the middle of the car.
The story is not yet at an end. It will tie
finished in the courts. The occupant of berth
12 is the wile of a New York merchant,
and upon her return to that city her hus
band at once began collecting evidence con
cerning the midnight episode, and has brought
suit against, the slecpingoar company fors 0,-
000 damages. The company, of course, will
be compelled to fall back upon its rich passen
ger in the state-room.
Jut see what a row can be kicked up by an
ill-advised effort to steal a good-night kiss in
a sleeping-car.
A WHOPPER.
A Snake Three Feet Long Fulled Out of
a Man’s Throat.
Boston, April 18.—A special to the Globe
from Grand Falls, Me., to-night says: David
Ferguson has been suffering terribly for the
past six months. His disease baffled the skill
of all the physicians in the country, and some
were called in from Lewiston and Auburn.
None of them could diagnose his case. He
has bcca constantly losing flesh and fre
quently felt a choking sensation in his throat.
Y esterday afternoon he begin coughing vio
lently, He had grown purple in the face
when a snake’s head suddenly darted out of
his mouth. Ferguson saw the 6-iake but an
instant and then fell fainting to the floor. His
sister Rebecca came in and he told her what
had happened. She asked him to cough again
and saia if the snake showed his head she
would seize it and pull the reptile
out. Ferguson coughed two or three
miuntes. Rebecca stood in front of
him. with her hands upheld. Suddenly the
snake’s head apueared with such a hiss that
Rebecca jumped aw ay. David told her not
to be afraid, but to grab surely next time.
Rebecca nerveo hers-If, wripned a towel
around her right hand and stood ready. One
mme coughing spell and tho snake’s head
darted out. Rebecca made a lunge at it and
caught its head in the towel. Then she quickly
wound it round her hand and gave a jerk.
Out came three feet of snake and around its
tail a piece of fle-h from just below the
throat into which tlie snake had grown. A
blood vessel was ruptured and Ferguson bled
to death in a short time. Local doctors think
the snake rnu-i have been swallowed bv Fer
gnson while drinking water in tbe dark dur
ing some of his deer stalking expeditions.
Be Patient With the Living.
Froiu Good Cheer.
Sweet friend, when thou and 1 are gono
Beyond earth’s weary labor,
W hen email shall be our need of grace
From comrade or from neighbor;
Past all thestrile, the toil, the care.
And done with all the sighing.
What tender truth shall we have gained,
Alas, by simply dying?
Then lips too chary of their prais3
Will tell our merits over,
And eyes 100 swift our faults to see.
Shall no defect discover:
Then hands that would not lift a ston#
Where stones were thick to cumber
Our steep hill path, will scatter flowers
Above our pillowed slumber.
Sweet friend, pcrchaneo both thou and I,
l-.re love is past forgiving,
Should take the earnest lesson home:
Be patient with the living!
To-dnv’s repressed rebuke may sayo
Our blinding tears to-morrow:
Then patience, e’en when keenest edg%
May whet a nameless sorrow.
’Tia easy to be gentle when
Death’s silenee shames our clamor,
And easy to discern the best
Through memory’s mystic glamour^
But wise it were for thee and me,
Ere love is past forgiving.
To lake the tender lesson home:
Be uatient with ihe living.
Weeping at the Gettysburg Panorama.
From the Detroit Free Crete.
Among the crowd prpsent at the panoramic
battle of Gettysburg Hie other evening was a
boy about 15 years of age. He hud been ga
zing around him for about fifteen minutes
when he began to ween. The fact was uo
tlced. and directly a gentleman sac':
“Ah! poor lad! This painting revives some
ep so eof grief in Ins life. My boy, why do
you weep?’’
“’Ca-cii-caiise, sir!" was the broken reply
as his tears fell faster.
D.>ca the sight of this battle move you?”
•• Y-ves!”
• Did your father lay down his life on this
field?”
“No."
“Lose a brother there?”
“No.”
“But you lost a relation of some sort?*
"No—not that I know of.”
"Then It must be these Idoodv scenes which
overcome you, poor child.”
"N-no, sir, I come in here on the money
winch dad gave me to buy ino'asses with, and
It ha-just struck me that the whole Umou
army can’t stop him from givm' me a bim
awfnl whalin’ when I git home I reckon that
feller over there on a stretcher is me—after
dad gits through bringin' up bis reserves!”
A War Out of the Difficulty.
From the 7Yoy Te e/jraidi.
Old Dr. Hewson was distinguished for phil
anthrophy. On one occasion the Doctor had
a case of malignant typho and lever. He pre
scrib and rest ami nourishment for his patient
"Give Dan plenty ol chicken. He must
have more nourishment.”
"Shall I kill uchickon?”
"Yes, you’d better kill a young rooster:
broil it well, and add plenty of butter. Pa
tients with typhoid fever like plenty of
Krsvy.”
Dan’s wife killed, dressed and cooked a fine
chicken.
••That’s about right,” said tho Doctor, who
wa superintending the job, as he enviously
eyed the chicken.
"Dan, how’re you feeling?"
"First rate. Doctor, first rate.”
“bet me feel your pulse?”
Dan extended his arm and hand.
"You are more feverish than usual. I just
ordered your wife to broil a chicken, but you
can’t eat it: vou’rc too feverish.”
“What shall wo do, Doctor, inquired the
w tr.
"I see no way out of the difficulty but too
eat the chicken ourselves. 1 once suffered
from typhoid lover luvsclf. madaml”
I I
ITEMSOF INTERF.ST.
In the Treary at Washington is a rat ]
catcher, a colod man, who has a record of
600 rats killed th ids bare bands. He has
the knack ot gbbing the animal by the skin
between the e$ aud the jaw, and by a sud
den twist breahg its neck.
An emineniinging MASTER, sn Italian,
who was a lebrated tenor, once said;
"Throughout i* vocal profession, from the
highest to theowest, you will always And
, ihis.” he said; he baritone and the bass may
I In-men of talen the tenor is invariably an
| diot.”
\ Rondoct4an tells this timely yarn:
Dv'vays that he>onght some green rtve. in
tenci U a to colofiome eggs for his children for
au( j ]ai<tbe package on a bench in
the yard, Bid forgot abort It. When he
thoughivo get ihe discovered that his hens
had eatu mo 9 of the dyestuff. The next
day lie thpe bright gieen eggs in the
nests; the\ exl , ay three n.o' a shade or two
lighter; tin j av the rgz had just the
sligiiiest titv e ofgrecn; the fourth day they
resumed tiny nrrmal appoiiranee.
It is solely assertid at Washington
that at theNat ona i Denycratic convention
of 1884 an eminv,t statesman who had risen
to make a speec. ratifyilK the Presidential
nomination, afteraelivelng an extravagant
eulogy of the canuuate,reached the climax
where lie was to iitt-r hiname only to forget
wtiat that name was. Ujder pretense of tak
ing a drink he tnrnettnd in au agonized
whisper asked a friend knud him, “What is
his name?” “Clevelan!” was the reply.
“No! no!” gasped the ofcr; “hisown name;
not the place he comes fsn!”
The alumni of TrinltjColloge, Hartford,
having raised $20,000 towids a SBO,OOO gymna
sium, Mr. Junius S. M-gan, the London
banker, has notified thiew York house of
which his son. Mr. J. Piegon! Morgan, is the
head, to pay the balancqteeded, and also to
advance enough for an anex which can be
used in winter, making tp total gift at least
$20,000. Mr. Morgan is aialive of Hartford,
where, before going to pndon he was an
honori and merchant, and heitofore he has been
generouslv libera! to Trity College and to
other institutions and pifiic objects in that
city.
Fred Faul, a Californiaheep owner, found
a coyote’s den, and in itseven very young
coyotes. His shepherd d< Flora, who had
recently given birth to iven pups, four of
which had been killed. wS with him, and she
at once showed great inerest in the young
coyotes, licking and font 1 mg them, and at
length lying down and rtikling them. The
little fellows were carriet so the house, Flora
showing great solicitude neanwhile. There
they wer put in a boxatd a bed of straw,
and their foster mi>ther abandoning her own
offspring, who are tern/ brought up on a bot
tle, is giving much trn and sustenance to the
little pups of the prune.
M. pe FrisSEßArxls the name of the Bel
gian Socialist leadei He was formerly a
a member of the bar ( Brussels, but was ex
pelled for unprofessiqal conduct. He then
served in the Turk! 1 army against Russia,
and rose to the rank f “Bey,” or Colonel,
being also several tims decorated. He re
tired finally from thakervice and returned to
Belgium with a for u* of $1 'O,OOO. He is very
active an l speeds hisnoney freely. He is a
fluent and forcible wlter. It is charged, of
course, that his and Pince Kranotkineis In
flammatory pamphlts, which have been
widely circulated at Liege. Charleroi and
other places, hawe larely influenced the stri
kers.
The question of th validity of the late
election in the Wytheille (Y r a.) magisterial
district, in which th< local optionists won,
was before Judge Hobrook, of the County
Court of Wythe count; last week. The chief
points relied on by tli parties who claimed
that the election was invalid were that the
commissioners of clecions failed to canvass
the vote and make tinir report in the time
required by law, and hat oue of the election
o.nniiniSMioners was na-er legally appointed.
There was an array oi able conns-d. In an
elaborate opinion, Jlige Holbrook decided
adversely to tlie pHrtieipetitioning for license.
Au appeal has been l&en from bis decision,
and the case will go tolhe higher courts.
Sunday morning a ctowd of men and wo
men with baskets anl babies on their arms
crowded about 52 Eldndg street. New York,
the residence of Mrs. Ihiiline Rosendorff, wife
of the Grand street mYchint. Every Palm
Sunday Mrs. Rosendoiff notifies the poor peo
ple about her to call aid get a ticket, which is
good for f o o three toeight pounds of meat
at a neighboring biitcier’s shop. The base
ment door was opeied. and the crown
squeezed into the dinitg-room as fast as they
could, leaving their ntmes and going awav
with a ticket. Over 301 tickets for meat were
given away. Mrs. Rosendorff tea member of
th-- down-town Hebnw Ladies’ Society,
which annually gives away large quantities
of provisions
Loan Aylesford’s name will be recalled
as that of a dissipated Englishman who
bought a cattle ranch in Texas and died
there. There was a rumor that the death
alleged was a "jon.” rotten up to secure a
large insurance Here is what the London
World sav9: "It is well known that Lord
Avleeford died in Texas on Jan. 13, 1885;
that his body was ver carefully and skill
fully embalmed and brought to England by
Ilia companion. Rev. A. G Burnard, and (hat
his features were recognized by his mother
and at least a score of his relatives during the
time the remains were at Packingtor.. A
g'ass panel was inserted in the coffin over the
lace, and it was noticed that, in accordance
with his last request, a diamond pin given
him by the Prince of AVales was placed on his
breast.”
In old times George Smith was a well
known trader in the village of AVayne, Me.
All storekeepers sold rum at that day, and
Smith peddled a lot of it. He drew it from a
hogshead, in which a plug took the place of a
modern faucet. A piece of leather under the
plug shaped the course of the stream. Some
of Smith’s customers occasionally bantered
him about watering his rum. but Smith al
ways good-naturedly replied that he never
put water enough in it to hurt ’em. One
morning a customer came in very early and
asked for a quart of the liquor. It happened
that the rum ivn low iu tho hogshead. Smith
canted it up, drew out Hie plug, and only a
few drops came, hut a frog jumped through
the h'.le and bopped around as livclv as ever.
"Gosh!" said Smith, "that’s the first West In
dia frog 1 ever saw’.”
The I.ondon says that the pain of
neuralgic headache experienced by women is
generally located iu one or more brandies of
the second cervical uerve. very commonly
those terminating in tho scalp at the occi
put. Tho nerves of the scalp are irritated by
1 ho hair being drawn too tightly bark and put
on the strain, not us a whole, in which case
the strain w ould be spread oyer a large an a
of the surface, but by small bundles of hair,
which are pulled back ami bold in place by
hairpins. Relief is often consciously expe
rienced a. a result of removing the hairpins,
but this has onlv a temporary and partial ef
fect, The injury done Is butting in itse.on
sequences. The present style of dressing hair
should be discontinued,as it probably,in part,
ae ounts for the extreme prevalence of neu
ralgic headache.
The contest over tho will of Gustavus
Nicholson, a Baltimore banker, who died last
year, lias developed the fact that the old man
was a great lover of cats. Ue kept a regular
free boarding-house or asylum for cats. He
had over a dozen of his own tabbies, and
these were permitted to Invite their friends,
so titat hosts of the feline species were enter
tamed al the banker’s home. He took cats
to bed with him. and sometimes a matronly
cat would provide a nest in his comfortable
feather bed, and there a litter of kittens
would tie corn and raised. Thu old gentle
man always had several exts sleeping with
him The-ervants testified that at one time
he had six Maltese eats living in his room ;
these were the favored ones. Six commoner
cats were kept down in tho kitchen. Ho
loved his cats, and grieved when any died.
Lons II a nx, of Pittsburg, is well known
there us "The Little Chief.” Whenever there
Is an ulartn of fire, the boy, clad in the garb
of a fireman, is always seen dashing to the
burning building. He is almost a monomaniac
on matters pertaining to the lire department,
and knows more atioiit the department than
most of tne firemen. Itc can do what every
member of the department confesses himself
unable to do, and that is to be given the num
ber of n box and then tell it* exact location
and what engine will respond to the alarm
from It. Time and again, when In nn engine
house, the test ha* been made, and young
Hubn could never be deceived, He kept post
ed on every new box. In Ida room he has
fixed up several wires and gongs, and often
enjoys himself in practicing on them. So far
ha* his fir*- department proclivities gone that
it Is his great desire to have a win- run to hts
house and a gong placed therein, that he may
hear each alarm of Ore. He knows every Uro
.man. and freuueata every engine bouse.
Salting JUtw&tr,
JIIIL
MOST PE RFECT MADE
Prepared with special regard to health.
No Ammonia, Lime or Alum.
PRICE BAKING POWDER CO..
CHIC AGO* ST. LOUIS.
Urn <&ooO0.
MMEWItI
Reduced.
Our entire stock of COLORED GRot
GRAIN SILKS (Imported) we have re.
duced to 75c,; regular price sl.
A handsome line of Imported SURAH
SILKS. Spring Colors, at 75c.; worth sl.
Anew and full line of BLACK DRESS
SILKS (from the best French
88c., worth $1 25; at $1 25, worth $1 so ~
$1 49, worth $2. ’ **
BLACK SATIN RHADAMEB at It
worth $1 50; at $1 25, worth $1 65. *
Dress Goods.
A great Varietv of Styles in Light All
Wool Fabrics, for Spring and Summer, u
all the Fashionable colors. Also, a Choic.
Selection of High Novelties.
Black Goods.
SUMMER BOUCLES, Handsome BA.
TISTES, Fine TAMISE. Fine CAMEL’S
HAIR. NUNS’ VEILING. ALBATROSS
CLOTHS, and other Light All Woni
BLACK FABRICS, new and desiralils.
ALL WOOL BUNTING at 15c.
A Job Lot of Ladies’ BALBRIGGAN HOSI
(Seamless) at 15c. a pair.
A Job Lot Children’s LISLE THREAD
HOSE at 35c. per pair, or three pair lor th
worth 50c. per pair.
Cndervests.
For Spring and Summer, Ladies' ant
Gentlemen’s, from 25c. up.
Children’s, from 15c. up
Ladies’ JERSEY UNDERVESTS.
White Goods.
INDIA LINEN, Shear and Even Fat
ries, from 8' jO. to 25c.
CHECKED NAINSOOKS, Fine Qnali
ties, from 8' to 25c. •
MULL MUSLINS. FRENCH NAIX.
SOOKS, PERSIAN LAWNS.
A Job Lot of WHITE BED SPREADS aI
90c.; worth $1 25.
A Job Lot ol WHITE BED SPREADS at
$1 25; worth $1 75.
IRISH TABLE LINENS, NAPKINS, DOY.
LIES and TOWELS.
Laces and Embroideries.
Elegant Lace Flouncings.Spanish Laces,
Torchon Lacee, Medecis Laces, All-Ovet
Beaded Laces, All-Over Embroideries,
Embroidered Flouncings, etc.
A Job Lot of ORIENTAL LACES at Bc,
10c., 12>*c., and 15c.; worth 50 percent. mor
than we arc selling them for.
A Job Lot of Wide HAMBURG EDGINGS
at 25c.; worih 35c. and 40c.
A Job Let of Medium Width HAMBURG
EDGINGS at 10c.; worth 15c. to 25c.
A Handsome Line of Parasol*
and Sun Umbrellas.
Crown Shirts, $1 00.
AH Sizes of the Best of shirts.
COLLARS and CUFFS from the sam.
manufactory-
Also, the Best 50e. and 75c, SHIRTS tv
be had.
A Job Lot of Gentlemen’s LINEN COL.
LARS at "sc. per dozen; reduced from U T's
lltiUmrm-
TIIE LA DIES AKKINV FT ED TO MT
OPENING OF
INFANTS’
Caps & Sun Eonnets.
Infants' Caps, Sun Bonnets,
Infants’ Caps, Sun Bonnets.
Special Prices for This Week:
Berghman’s Zephyr 7c.
Germantown Wool 7c.
Hats and Bonnets for ladies
and children trimmed by ex*
perieuced hands for 25c.
Hat and Bonnet Frames,
new shapes, 15c this week.
Mrs. Kate Power,
Dealer in Millinery & Fancy Goots,
for gale.
FOR SALE
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WEST FLORIDA,
House CEDtainini 17 Re®
gpiTABLS roa
HOARDING SCHOOL OK HOTE
—HAS—
SIX ACRES OF GItOUM
All highly Improved and all necessary®
buildings. Sold to close an estate. AdP'J
.J. E. CEEAKV
BLACKWATER. FLA. _
9iur*rm.
KIESLING’S NDKSEK
WHITE BLUFF ROAD.
PLANTS. BOUQUETS, DESIGNS, <-
FLOWERS furnished to order. If.
orders at Davis Bros.’, corner BulLano i
street*. Telephone caUAkfl. a